#conduct

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. ↗

— Tori Amos

#calling #conductor #creature #dragon #entity

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

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None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves. ↗

— Mary Astell

#conduct #direct #fit #good #govern

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. ↗

— John Abizaid

#areas #border #conducting #correct #military

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#compel #conduct #even #greater #grid

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

#characterization #characterizes #conduct #dialogue #drama

Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much. ↗

— John Barbirolli

#conductors #do you know #know #live #long

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#conductors #synonymous #technique #two #words

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#conducting #could #first #go #got